IOR/F/4/2238/112356

The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 November 1847. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the thirty-fifth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.

The item relates to letters sent by Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Persia [Iran], in September 1847. The letters relate to:

• The assistance (as requested by Sheil) that Hennell is providing to Syed Hasheim Jemaranee [Sayyid Hāshim Jamārānī], who has arrived at Bushire [Bushehr] with twenty-five followers and intends to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca
• Vessels which have arrived at Bushire with enslaved people on board, thought to have been taken from Berberah [Berbera], Soor [Sur] and Muscat
• Efforts by Captain Lowe, Senior Officer in the Indian Navy, to capture vessels from Muscat departing from Bushire with enslaved people on board
• The status of the cholera outbreak at Bushire, Cazeroon [Kazerun], Shiraz and Bahrein [Bahrain].

The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48’, ‘Collection No. 2 of No. 139, Vol: 35.’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.